Mop.



G. HUMPHRIES.

MOP.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2, 1913,

1,092,770. Pa ented A1117, 1914.

Winesses,

GEORGE HUMPI-IRIES, OF HAVEBI-IILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

Mor.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

Application filed April 2, 1913. Serial No. 758,398.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HUMPI-IRIES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Mops, of which the following is a specification,

This invention relates to certain improvements in floor mops, and has for its object to provide a simple, effective, inexpensive and durable means for rigidly securing the material of which the mop is composed to the handle, which will enable the mop to be removed readily from the handle and anew one to be substituted therefor, without difficulty, and which will provide a support or backing for the mop, which will hold it in front of, or beneath the handle, so that it may be forcibly pressed against the floor when used. I accomplish these objects by the means shown in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof taken at the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the mop connecting plate. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail views showing the mop clamping means before it is attached, Fig. i being a section at the line 4E4c of Fig. 1, Fig. 5 a side elevation, and Fig. 6 a plan view. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the clamping plate.

As shown in the drawing, the ordinary wooden handle a is provided with a ferrule b on its end, and an annular disk or connecting plate jc is connected to the handle by means of a long brad (Z which is passed through a centrally arranged aperture 0' therein, and driven into the middle of the handle longitudinally thereof, so that the disk 0 is firmly clamped against the end of the handle. The portion of the brad adjacent its head and the hole 0 are square in form to prevent the disk from turning. Said disk 0 is of rigid sheet metal of dished or concave-convex form, the convex side being arranged to bear against the end of the handle.

The mop 6 preferably comprises a bundle of strands of hemp, or similar material, the middle portion of the bundle being clamped between a pair of clamping plates 7 and g. The bottom plate f is approximately circular in form and is provided, at diametrically opposite points, with a pair of cars f which project therefrom at right angles. The up lugs 7.

In practice the bundle e of hemp strands is placed on the plate f between its ears f, as shown in Fig. 4, then the plate 9 is placed against the bundle, the ears 1" being passed through the apertures g in the plate 9, and then said plates are firmly pressed together by any suitable means. While the plates are thus held pressed against opposite sides of the bundle, the ear sections, or lugs f are bent down onto the plate and, as the malleable sheet metal, of which the parts are made, is stiff and does not easily bend, the plates will be securely locked together against the expansive force of the bundle. The other lugs or car sections f are then passed through the apertures c of the disk 0, and the concave side of said disk is pressed firmly onto the top plate g, as shown in Fig. 4E, and then said ear-sections f are bent outwardly, and downwardly onto the disk 0, as indicated in Fig. 2. The mop is thus securely connected to the disk 0, and as said disk has previously been secured to the handle, the parts will all be rigidly connected. The disk 0, as thus arranged with relation to the mop material, provides a rigid backing therefor, and holds it in front of the handle when pushed along the floor thereby, so that the floor may be forcibly scrubbed with the mop. By providing a connection between the disk and the handle which. will not permit the disk to turn with relation thereto, and by providing the ears f at opposite points, the mop will be securely held from turning with relation to the handle. As the concave side of the plate 0 faces downward, it acts to better advantage in holding the mop strands in front of, or beneath the handle, as the mop is pressed against the floor thereby, and also provides a space for the head of the brad cl and a recess to receive the plate 9.

The bundle of strands clamped between the plates f and g, as shown in Fig. 4, may be sold as a separate article of manufacture for renewal, and, when the mop becomes worn, it may be readily removed by bending up the ear sections f and withdrawing them from the plate 0 and then inserting the ear sections of the new mop in the apertures of said plate and attaching it in the manner already described. The handle and disk 0 may thus be used for an indefinite period.

The above describedconstruction may be manufactured at small expense, as the plates 0, f and 9 may be died out of sheetmetal, and the parts may be easily and quickly assembled.

I claim:

1. In combination with a handle, an attaching plate secured to the end thereof, a mop, a pair of clamping plates engaging opposite sides of said mop, two pairs of ears, one pair connected to one clamping plate and extending through and bent into-engagement with the other clampingiplate, to hold said clamping plates in engagementwith the mop, and the other pair connected to one clamping plate and extending through the other clamping plate and through said attaching plate and bent into engagement with the latter, substantially as described.

2. In combination with ahandle, a sheet metal disk having a central aperture and two diametrically opposite apertures, a pair of clamping plates, one having a pair of oppositely disposed apertures and-the other having apair of correspondingly dispose ears extending therethrough, said ears hav? ing their end port-ions bifurcated to provide clamping lugs, one lug of each ear being bent into docking engagement with said apertured plate, and the other lugs extend-f ing through the apertures of said'disk and 3. An article of manufacture comprising a pair of metal clamping plates, onehaving oppositely disposed apertures and the "other having two I .pairs of corresponding disposed ears extending through said apertures,

a mop disposed between said ears and clamped between said plates, one pair of said ears having its end portion bent into-engagement with the outer sideof the apertured plate, and the otheripair of ears extending therefrom to provide attaching means substantially as described. a

1 4:. An article of manufacture comprising a pair of clampingplates, one'having two oppositely disposed apertures and the other having a pair of correspondinglyfdisposed ears and having bifurcated endportions extending through said apertures, amop disposed between said ears and having said plates pressed against'opposite sides thereof, one section of said bifurcated portion of 'eachpair beinglibent into engagement= with the outer side of saidiapertured plate, to hold said plates in clamping engagement withthe. mop, andthe other sections thereof extending therebeyond to provide attaching means, substantially as described.*

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

' GEORGE HUMPHRIES. IVitnesses:

5 L. H; IIARRIMAN, D. J. LINEHAN.

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